Hayden Thorpe shares new single "Doom Orchid"

Following on from the release of his third studio album Ness last year, Hayden Thorpe has shared a brand-new song, “Doom Orchid”, on which he continues to explore the mysteries of Suffolk’s Orford Ness and the destructive nature of the atomic weapon research that happened there.   

Thorpe elaborates: “Performing the album at Orford Ness beside a nuclear missile had a profound effect on me. I came to see the missile as strange phallic totem, not a fertility symbol but the inverse of that, a ridiculous hyper-macho amulet of death. Doom Orchid explores our very human dark urges and how our destructive impulses and our libidinous wants must agonisingly co-exist. It’s a love letter to Ness, but perhaps the sort of letter that reveals a little too much.”  

Alongside “Doom Orchid”, Thorpe releases “Listen To Ness: In Conversation with Robert MacFarlane”, a long-form recording of a discussion between the two collaborators on all things Ness: its origins and how the project grew to what it is today. Stream here.

Thorpe starts his UK tour of Ness this weekend, full dates below with select appearances from Robert MacFarlane.   

Upcoming live dates 
Saturday 25th January – Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 
Sunday 26th January – Celtic Connections @ City Halls Recital Room, Glasgow 
Tuesday 28th January – Music Room, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool 
Wednesday 29th January – National Centre For Early Music, York 
Thursday 30th January – Sage 2, The Glasshouse International Centre For Music, Gateshead 
Friday 31st January – The Gate, Cardiff 
Saturday 1st February – The Lantern, Bristol Beacon, Bristol 
Sunday 2nd February – Blackwell Performance Space, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham - matinee 
Tuesday 4th February – Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich 
Wednesday 5th February – Komedia, Brighton 
Thursday 6th February – Storey’s Field Centre, Cambridge w/ Robert Macfarlane 
Friday 7th February – Kings Place, London w/ Robert Macfarlane – sold out 
Saturday 12th April – L’Archipel, Paris 
Sunday 13th April – Effenaar, Eindhoven 
Tuesday 15th April – Haldern Pop Bar, Rees 
Wednesday 16th April – Jaki, Cologne 
Friday 17th April – Baketown, Berlin 
Saturday 18th April – Trafo, Jena 
Sunday 19th April – Feinkost Lampe, Hanover 
Wednesday 7th May – Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival @ The Deer’s Head, Belfast
Thursday 8th May – The Grand Social, Dublin 
Friday 9th May – St Michael’s Church, Manchester